Help Why do ppl who hang have their tongues sticking out their mouth?

[mini_weeny]

Only seen it in the movies, is it true people who die of hanging end up with their tongues sticking out their mouth? Why is that??? Does the whole wind pipe breaks and caves in ? that's why the tongue is pulled outwards? I got pretty hurt from messing around with a scarf, nothing violent still I damaged a pharyngeal nerve and got crackling sounds in my throat that have lasted for more than a year and a half, still, I can't find another method other than full suspension, my neck is super skinny so I suppose there would be a lot of cartilage and Hioid bone fracture? Most people have fat and muscle to "soften" the strangulation but I'm all skin and bones, I can easily feel my pulse right beneath the surface of the skin in my neck.

 

[iwanttodie000]

I have wondered that too. I assume it's just the force of everything pulling down combined with the body trying to get air, especially in full suspension. I know I have noticed my tongue automatically sticks out even if I hang with a belt off my desk or a towel rod or anything anchored without even passing out. I think it might just be a natural body survival thing that's uncontrollable. I'm no expert tho lol

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Let's see here... *adjusts glasses*

If we press all of that shit under the tongue together and move it upward it would make sense for the base of the tongue to get transported a bit. If the tongue will come out of the mouth would depend on more factors. Biting down? Gasping for air? Screaming?

 

[user667]

i thought it was just because death causes swelling of the tongue, which forces it to protrude. i have no knowledge of science tho so idk

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

i thought it was just because death causes swelling of the tongue, which forces it to protrude. i have no knowledge of science tho so idk

This makes sense, same reason as the eyes popping out of the skull.

 

[WornOutLife]

i thought it was just because death causes swelling of the tongue, which forces it to protrude. i have no knowledge of science tho so idk

I think you're right!

 

[user667]

This makes sense, same reason as the eyes popping out of the skull.

yummy!

 

[mini_weeny]

This makes sense, same reason as the eyes popping out of the skull.

I thought the eyes popped out because of the pressure of all the blood building inside the skull.

I have wondered that too. I assume it's just the force of everything pulling down combined with the body trying to get air, especially in full suspension. I know I have noticed my tongue automatically sticks out even if I hang with a belt off my desk or a towel rod or anything anchored without even passing out. I think it might just be a natural body survival thing that's uncontrollable. I'm no expert tho lol

Maybe it's a reflex that happens when pressure is applied in a specific place in the neck.

 

[Silver]

This website says "The tongue may protrude due to the pressure of the noose on the base of it" and looking at @GenesAndEnvironment's diagram, that'd be around the top of the hyoid bone, which does tend to break during hanging.

 

[mini_weeny]

This website says "The tongue may protrude due to the pressure of the noose on the base of it" and looking at @GenesAndEnvironment's diagram, that'd be around the top of the hyoid bone, which does tend to break during hanging.

Then it must be more painful than some ppl here say it is right?

 

[WaitingForTheBusInTh]

That's why I'm putting a pillowcase over my head when I go. Want to give the person who finds me a minute before they have to see that